Wednesday, October 22, 2008

I'm slowly going through my Martha Stewart's Cookies book and decided to try these cute as a button cookies. You can find the recipe here!

The cookie is basically a shortbread filled with chocolate. I scooped the dough out with my mini-ice cream scoop and rolled them into balls.

Martha (yeah, I know it is her staff that write these books, but I still imagine Martha talking directly to me) says to pull the balls of dough out of a HOT oven after 10 minutes and then PLUNGE your thumb into the ball 'o fire. She even recommends keeping a bowl of ice water nearby to chill your thumb.

Woman! (yes, I'm speaking directly to you, Martha) I don't know what you learned in prison, but I'm not one for sticking my fingers into hot dough. I sorta need that thin layer of skin that is surely going to fry off so I can lick bowls of cupcake batter! Therefore, I used my wooden lemon reamer - what a perfect little fit too!

Ok. I have to tell you about my great find! A few weeks ago, I came across a garage sale and found an amazing set of vintage tupperware containers in these fantastic colors. And they were practically new! Whoo hoo!

The centers are filled with melted semi-sweet chocolate and corn syrup. I ended up with a bunch left over...I should have filled them with lots more chocolate. Overall, they were okay but not my top 10 favorite cookie.

Wow. I totally assumed those were melted Hershey's kisses in the middle! Wasn't it a pain spooning in the melted chocolate? Martha can be high-maintenance sometimes! Regardless, they look beautiful, and at least you didn't sacrifice precious thumb-skin to make them. :)

Your thumbprints look awesome! I'm not much of a short bread fan, that is.. unless it's filled with chocolate.. hahah. I wish my area had more garage sales or at least ones that sold cool vintage items!!

These thumbprints which chocolate look great! I love the colors of vintage Tupperware. My parents have that set. When I was visiting them this summer, I offered to buy them a set of ziploc containers for their cupboards since the Tupperware doesn't stack as nicely, but they absolutely adore their Tupperware and look for it at every garage sale they go to. Ziploc won't do! ;)